'What did they do about the firefighters, except sensitivity training? . . . There was no discipline.' -Brooklyn federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis (above), grilling city lawyer Patricia Miller on the FDNY’s response to incidents of racism against black firefightersPaul Martinka

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The judge hearing the long-running discrimination lawsuit against the FDNY tore into the city’s attorney yesterday, saying almost nothing was done by department brass to address racial harassment in firehouses.

During closing arguments in the nonjury trial — the culmination of a four-year battle over minority hiring in the Fire Department — Brooklyn federal court Judge Nicholas Garaufis demanded to know why the FDNY didn’t do more when a black firefighter, Lanaird Granger, found a hangman’s noose draped over his gear in 2005.

“What did they do about the firefighters, except sensitivity training?” asked Garaufis, who is allowed to question attorneys during closing arguments because it is a bench trial.

The verbal sparring came during the final arguments of the 2007 lawsuit filed by the Vulcan Society, a fraternal organization of black firefighters that is arguing that the FDNY has wrongly kept out minorities.

The department’s racial makeup is only 3 percent black in a city that is 26 percent black.

Garaufis also blasted the department’s handling of an incident in which a firefighters defaced a flier honoring black firefighters who died on 9/11.

“Does that mean [the perpetrator] was moved to another firehouse? Was he rapped on the knuckles?” the judge asked.

“There was no discipline. There was only education,” he concluded.

He further said it took four years to resolve a single discrimination case, making corrective action all but impossible.

Miller replied: “I’m not going to tell you that in a staff of 16,000 people, you’re not going to have incidents of people doing things that are inappropriate. But they are isolated incidents.”

Earlier in the day, Vulcan Society lawyer Levy Ratner said discrimination complaints in the FDNY are often ignored.

“The question is: What has happened to the cases where there was no press conference, where the conduct is not as terrifying and immediate as a noose, but still retaliatory and harassing?” he said.

Officials had also testified that the number of Fire Department personnel assigned to handle discrimination complaints had shrunk from four to two over the past five years.

Garaufis, who did not say when he would announce his decision, has the power to order the FDNY to change the way it recruits and vets candidates and handles racism complaints.

He has already ruled that the written tests used by the FDNY discriminated against minorities, and he barred the city from hiring new firefighters for the last three years.